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title: "What is Data Compression?"  
description: "What is Data Compression?"  
author: "Amit Singh"  
published: 2011-04-28  
updated: 2020-09-21  
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# What is Data Compression?

Data compression changes the format of physical storage of data. It minimize the metadata (column information, length, offsets etc) associated with each record.

## Answers

### Answer by Amit Singh

Data compression changes the format of physical storage of data. It minimize the metadata (column information, length, offsets etc) associated with each record.


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